[kata-dev] Having govmm as part of virtcontainers

Christophe de Dinechin cdupontd at redhat.com
Wed Jul 28 08:27:41 UTC 2021



> On 28 Jul 2021, at 09:50, Fabiano FidĂȘncio <fabiano at fidencio.org> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> David Gibson, in an internal conversation, raised Today the pain of
> trying to fix a QEMU + kata-containers issue, having to update govmm,
> get it reviewed & merged on the govmm side, and only then be able to
> proceed with the work on QEMU + kata-containers.   I can relate to
> that, I'm pretty sure other developers can relate to that as well.
> 
> Considering that govmm is only used by kata-containers, wouldn't it be
> the case to have it as part of the virt-containers package rather than
> it's own project that we vendor?  I tend to see this as taking a step
> towards how we integrate cloud-hypervisor with kata-containers.
> 
> What do people think about this?  Is this a move we can make as part
> of the 2.3 release cycle?  Or are there other users of govmm that we
> missed?

Even if that's the case, we can still keep some external repository
in sync with the internal code, e.g. using git subtrees and exporting
govmm "releases" for external consumers.

> 
> Opinions, concerns, suggestions, all of those are super welcome.
> 
> Best Regards,
> -- 
> Fabiano FidĂȘncio
> 
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